Finances
Abstract of the Accounts of the Trading Operations and the Delegates’ Property and Reserve Fund of Oxford University Press for the year ended 31 March 2021
Introductory note
The Delegates wish to observe that:
(a) the abstracts of Accounts are drawn from the audited full non-statutory accounts of the Trading Operations and the Delegates’ Property and Reserve Fund of the Press;
(b) with regard to the abstract of the combined Balance Sheet of the Trading Operations, the short term cash position is substantially stronger at 31 March than at certain other times of the year;
(c) a proportion of earnings and cash balances arising in certain overseas countries is not available for use elsewhere;
(d) the Delegates’ Property and Reserve Fund was established during the year ended 31 March 1984 in order to distinguish more clearly the reserve investments of the Press from the assets and liabilities relating to the Trading Operations. The Fund holds and manages the properties of the Press together with the income arising therefrom. The main purpose of the Fund is to manage, in the short and medium term, the impact on the Press, and consequently on the University, of the realisation of material economic and financial risks to the Press.
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